Church of St Winifred

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SK 57 SW HOLBECK CHURCH LANE (South side)

7/83 Church of St. Winifred

G.V. II

Parish church, 1913-16. Designed by Mr. McIntyre, approved with a few modifications, by Louis Ambler for the Duke of Portland. Based on Steetley, Derbyshire. Rock-faced ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Single rock-faced ashlar stack to the north east. Stone coped gables and kneelers. 2 moulded ashlar eaves bands. Bellcote, surmounted by a cross, at the west gable, with a further ridge cross at the east end. Buttressed. Nave, north aisle, north porch, north vestry/organ chamber, chancel and east apse. Set into a recessed panel at the west end is a central arched light, flanked by single, similar, smaller lights, each being flanked by a single engaged column with cushion capital supporting an arch of chevron and an arch of billet. All 3 are contained in a flush ashlar quoin surround. Under is a string course. Above is a Lombard frieze, with an oeil de boeuf in raised ashlar surround over. To the left is a lean-to, with single small arched light in flush ashlar quoin surround. This extends into the gabled porch with stone coping and kneelers. A band of dentil runs under the gable which has carved lozenge decoration. Central arched doorway with 2 engaged columns either side, each with cushion capital supporting an inner arch of key pattern and an outer arch of chevron with nodules. Each of the side walls has a single small arched light in flush ashlar quoin surround. The inner porch doorway is arched. The north nave wall, with sill band which extends around the north and east vestry walls, has 5 small arched lights in flush ashlar quoin surrounds. The projecting vestry has 2 gables to the north front. There are 2 pairs of arched lights with flush ashlar quoin surrounds. The east wall has an arched doorway with 3 small arched lights in flush ashlar quoin surrounds to the left. The east chancel has 3 small arched openings with flush ashlar surround in the gable apex. The semi-circular apse with dentil and moulded, raised ashlar eaves bands and sill and impost bands has 3 small arched lights each flanked by single engaged columns with cushion capitals supporting a single arch of billet moulding. The south chancel has 2 arched lights with flush ashlar quoin surrounds and sill band. The south nave has 4 larger arched lights with similar surrounds and sill band. Interior. 4 bay nave arcade with round columns and scalloped capitals support round arches with billet moulding over. The moulded north aisle/organ chamber and chancel/organ chamber arches are each supported on 2 responds with capitals decorated with mythical animals. The moulded chancel arch decorated with key pattern, chevron and billet is supported either side on 3 engaged columns with similar fanciful capitals. The apse arch is decorated with key pattern and is supported either side on 2 columns with similar fanciful decorated capitals. The beamed roofs of the apse and north aisle have narrow decorated and coloured panels. The ashlar colonnaded and decorated altar rails are decorated with wooden carved angel heads. The stone altar has an arcaded front. The 1931 oak pulpit is decoratively carved and the stone font has a bronze cover designed by William Reid Dick, 1921. On the west wall is a wooden collection box with carved Madonna over, to William Lord Lovat 18 Feb 1933. The 1919 memorial lectern is decorated with a bronze eagle by Walter Gilbert. In the nave is a decorative wood and iron chest dated 1930. In the apse are 2 carved chairs. There are several silver lanterns, crosses and candlesticks, some by Bainbridge Williams, 1927. The lantern in the chancel is C17 Dutch. On the north aisle wall is a memorial tablet to Ottoline Morrell by E. Gill, 1939. There is a tablet to Major Lord William Augustus Cavendish Bentinck on the south chancel wall. On the north chancel wall is a Garter Banner belonging to the Dukes of Portland. The stained glass in the apse and chancel is by Mr. Meteyard of Birmingham.

Listing NGR: SK5466273250

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